The intelligencer., 1887-10-29
irugflks in all the new and beautiful shades,
mont 'ilks, Black Faille Francois Silks,
,reasiks. Colored Css;m;re

creaslks, Colored Casimirs,
source ~
| used ), constant customer Is secireu.
.Iacks,A will remain with us but few days
LONGER. hut in the meantime will be glad TO
apply his lniment free to all horses brought
to him, with the promise that if he does not
cpre your lame horse. he will not injure him
fn the Iesst. He can be found during business
hours at .he old stand of Mrs. Jas. HAYS
furniture store, opposite courthouse, Main
street. Call and see him. You will find
him an agreeable gentleman and always
ready to benefit you in any way in his power,
without money and without price.
s'The cause of temperance Is very strong in
LAFAYETTE county, but the cause of prohibition
is very weak. They are not synonymous
terms by any means. ns."-Inteligencer. "And
you would better take temperance in mild
form, like the Wood law, or the people will
yet give you a dose of prohibition such you
Threatened the Germans with. There is
to-day large number OF prohibitlonists in
Lafayette county. and if we mistake not, their
numbers are increasing. You would better
profit by the old proverb. neighbor, and not
monkey with the buzz .'"-POst. In
view of recent events there is good deal of
impudence in the Posts comment. First,
the "mildness" of the Wood law, or its
Temperance" are verv debatabie matters.
as has been demonstrated; second. the
lntellgencer As to the Germans +,
we are inclined to think, we're carried out by
contest; third, the Germans of the county
know where to count the Intsliigencer and
the Post on prohibition; fourth, the Posts
threat, above made, is of a piece with the
threat alluded to by it; fifth, the Post told lis
before the election that Higginsville and
Odessa would vote for the Wood law, and
that the county would also do so, and its
usefulness As prophet is somewhat at q dis
count just now by reason of the falacious.
ness of the diagnosis, that brought it down
on the wrong side OF the fence. where it
remained perched so long; sixth, we have
only the Posts word for il that prohibition
in Lafayette county is u .'buzz saw, whereas
we have the word OF majority OF 2,1SS
of Its citizens at the polls assuring us that it
is a fizzle. We did not stop to count noses
when we began our opposition to the Wood
law. The counties voting then were all going
for the law. and it seemed As if it was destin-
ed to sweep the state. but we thought the
law bad one and we said so. We should
have continued TO say so even ii this comfy
had gone the other way, aud we are certainly
not to be scared out of our convictions of
right by little harmless braggadocio aud
empty threats. There are not nearly so
m9ny prohibitionists in Lafayette county as
there were Il month ago. There are always
lot of fioaters upon the tide OF public senti.
ment who go with the popular wave. They
thought the wave was prohibitionist; they
know now that it is anti-prohibitionst.
The St, Louis Christian Advocate of this
week says "A quite number of counties
in Missouri have voted in favor of saloons,
the temperance people must submit to the
will OF the majority, but have this privilege.
they can keep away from the saloons and
persuade others to do likewise, and if the
saloons are not patronized they might as well
be prohibited. Saloons never trouble man
personally if he keeps at good distance from
them. He may deeply regret their effect on
others, and the increased taxes those effects
might impose upon him. Otherwise they
will not injure Linn If he keeps far away.
There are two sides TO the question, If
there were no drinkers there would be
no saloons, and if there were no saloons there
still might be drinkers, but not SO many. nor
so expensive 10 the country. The agitation
of the question is not likely TO cease for some
Will never cease until one or the other parties |
is completely floOred. The anti saloon feel, |
ing has spread more rapidly and extensively |
during the last twenty years than in fifty
years before, but 1t is questionable if the |
saloons have not increased proporlionately, |
and SO it goes With a good deal OF the |
above we thoroughly agree. Keep away
from saloons and persuade others to do so.
The man who does not enter them cannot be
personally hurt by saloons. IF there were
no drinkers there would be no saloonso Sut
We do not agree with the assertion that
counties which voted against the Wood law
voted Sin favor of 5aloous." As matter of
fact they voted against the Interior effect of
the taW-prohibitlon, Il is the fault of The
makers OF the law, and not Of the voters.
that 1t does not aim at the saloon alone hut or
ANY person." i. e., all persons, Aroth,r
thing. while in the recent canvass we made
no Use of the revenue argument bec,nse ve
telieve that people should do right at .I
costs, yet we cannot see the benefit that "a t
come from the erroneous impression souob,
10 be created, that the COSTS of crime i, Mis-.
souri, are greater than the reyanue a.r;ved
from the liquor traffic. The truth is the rs-
verse of The assumption. Take this oopn,v
for instance. the income from saloons in ,sse
Was SO, AGO 40; the entire costs IN criminal
cases 1or the same year was S537s 70. the
remainder, S1O,0Sl went into the c,nutv
treasury to meet other expenses. The IN,
come to the state from the liquor tra1lic in
1886 was S672 600. The total criminal ev-
penses for that ear, including the cost Of re.
pairs OIL the pententiary. was $500 800, The
balance, which went 10 and in paying other
expenses, was S4ll,jO0. Beside, it canno,
fairly he urged that all criminal costs come
from the ue of liquor. 1t is A. We'll 10 he
accurate, even when talking prohibition.